Fav Quotes from the Buddha

 The Quieter you become, the better you can Hear. 

Be Open to consider everything - but become less Attached to anything. 

There is no path to happiness.

Happiness is the Path. 

You only lose what you Cling to. 

Pain is certain, suffering is Optional. 

If you shine a Lamp for Someone, it will also brighten up your path. 

If you want to Fly, give up everything that Weighs you down. 

Love does not need to be Perfect, just True. 

The Behaviour of Others is their Own Karma. Not giving a Reaction to Negative People keeps our Distance from them. 

Take care of your Thoughts when you are by yourself.  You Are what your think. 

Take care of your Words when you are with company.   Right Speech, Right Action. 

The only constant thing in Life is Change. 

Life is an Echo. 

My fav quotes from the Buddha.

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The Delusions of Yesteryears

 

So I am told by the elderly, that volunteering to enlist for World War 2 in the mid 20th century was seen as obligatory by most to do their duty to nation and society - but in those times it was also an exciting adventure like opportunity to see the World.  Millennials, Gen Z and those following behind the Baby Boomers have had peacetime opportunity to explore overseas without the accompanying dangers of battle.

We have been given authority like advice on the health risks of eating eggs, desired blood pressure points and the benefits of health supplements.  Dissenting voices now appear in cyberspace to counter or modify such advice.  Every one has an individual uniqueness health wise - and to be subject to population averages can be missing the mark.

Many of us must have reflected on the serious loyalty and passion of sitting down to watch and hear the news telecast.   As the internet liberated the expression of and accessibility to information, it has become so clear and evident of how such news content has been cherry picked and emphasised according to the powers of the day (financial, geopolitical and more).  Now the equivalant Town Hall megaphone pundits are doing it by clicks, social media and more.

Nothing is forever.  The impermanence of Things pervades more than ever, despite the tech advance, the addictive distractions and new ideas.   Strive and enjoy the Moment.  A promise can be fulfilled and yet disintegrate due to the consistency of Change.   Excessive attachments interfere with true happiness.  Flora bloom, rot and regenerate.  Politicians come and go, together with whatever inspiration, lies and mediocrities.  The Cloud demands your money payments after you get comfy storing your data having access to it from any device.  Pets die.  And yet we have to carry on.

When young, our brains and inner soul absorb the wonder and fascination of what we are being fed in all respects.   Only later do we realise the half truths of the geopolitical game.   That Prime Minister we honoured in our childhood turns out to be a scroundel.   The public or commercial institution we use has mismanaged our data.  Customers long loyal to a specific entity get rewarded by being screwed with higher charges and bad service.

The romanticisation from movies, travel brochures and legends have hidden realities.   Exotic locales can mean suppression of Indigenous peoples.   History is always recorded ignoring the contributions from humans and human structures not useful to the World as it is According to Those In Power.

When we have been brain washed through the years, essentially we can still hang on to myths, tampered propanganda and blurry impressions of the past.

Were historical leaders that good?

Where we witness a mass of people wailing at state funerals, do we remember the dark side and acts of the deceased indivudual when he or she was in power?  Human beings are easily swept over by overwhelming public emotion.  To realise the truth, even if not downtrodden, is a liberating experience.

The distractions of the past also point a way to better manage the continuing delusions of the present.
If you look close enough, history does repeat.   There are similar characteristics in the personality and pyschological make up of humans and entities out to delude us all the way to the future.

On the bright side, delusions experienced are only a necessary stage on your journey to realisation and awakening.


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Inherent About Numbers

Binary numbers led to the way of automated and intelligent software.

The media quotes numbers to affect our senses - how much our investments have grown or been reduced, the amount of ingredients in our nutrition, knowledge of parameters measuring our society and how we can visualise and realise our personal dreams. 

Numbers can be the true universal language. 

We have hand wearables that spew out numbers on how our physical bodies are performing.  The calendar has facilitated time management, appointments and project planning.  We reflect on anniversaries and the march of numbers has been the ever reliable quiet partner of progress. 

Truly each of us are identifiable by numbers, whether in cyberspace, the devices we register with like mobile phones, government management of its citizens and other residents, our title deeds, financial assets or liabilities or more. 

Banking is indeed a trove, game and use of numbers.  Whether it is based on blockchain, cash or digitised systems, numbers are indeed indispensable.   The relentless daily movement of reported values in currency, share value or trading insights means that one can make gain or suffer loss by paying attention to differentials or dabbling in speculation. 

As with most human devices, numbers can be misused. 

So called elections are won by counting the majority voted for. 

Health diagnoses are decided by whether your count is above or below an arbitrary average.  You pay for wifi and other utilities by the relentless metering of numbers.  

You are a sports achiever by attaining the ninimum time to do it. 

With civilised standards, we trust in recorded or recommended numbers.

However, polling counts can be manipulated.   Focusing on counts can miss the benefits of holistic health assessments.  Numbers are only a tool, not the be all.  Numbers are only indicators and not the rule. 

There can be a human penchant to be fascinated by numbers.  Think of the Guiness Book of Records or how many hits on an app an influencer or singer has achieved.  Numbers can imply how much you are earning  or how well you have used or wasted a limited resource like time. 

We are encouraged to keep our minds active or relax by quizzes involving numbers.   We wrestle with the interplay of numbers as much as with alphabets, abstract ideas, philosophy and technological complications.   Humans inventorise, list and count joys and lesser agreeable things. 

Mobility has leapt by bounds and travel thrives on numbers.   Approvals, documentation and certifications are validated by issued numbers.   Our aircraft has to be flying above a certain measured height in the clouds before we enjoy wifi accessiblity in the stratosphere.  All airlines provide on screen feedback to passengers on how the flight is performing.   

There can be pyschological and emotional implications from numbers.  Society driven addictions like gambling thrive on the utilisation of numbers.  Age old cultures give powerful meanings behind each number.  Passwords are created by using numbers, or part of them - and many use specific numbers meaningful and easier to recall. 

Odd or even numbers are called up for duty in selecting those for national service, use of vehicles allowed on roads of busy cities on different days and in facilitating distribution of limited resources 

There are expressions that echo human kind's inherent ties with numbers. 

One's number is called up.

Age is only a number.

The number of things available does not indicate quality.

I have a lucky number.

The numbers involved make me feel numb.

What is the Number One rule?

A few honest men are better than the numbers.

The numbers are too big to ignore.

Business in the end is about the numbers.

Eight means prosperity, six implies happiness and three exudes life.

Four can mean fortune.

It is all a game of numbers.

The numbers do not tell the full story.

Numbers do not lie.

Numbers do not feel.

There is safety in numbers.

You have to be odd to be Number One.

Numbers speak for themselves.

Numbers rule the Universe.

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